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170 companies and 3 offers? Why so many applications and so few offers? Were they just ignoring you?

• cyorir 10y ago
  My guess is that a number of the applications were done via job boards rather than at each company. In my experience as someone still looking for a first job, job board applications seem to have incredibly low yields.
• komali2 10y ago
  Because I chose an offer within a month. So approximately half of those were sent within 2-3 weeks before I accepted an offer, and of that half I had to turn down a good deal of follow-ups. Also, bootcamp-grad. I chose a shotgun approach. It worked. EDIT: to clarify, I haven't heard back from 170. I applied to ~300.